Assassination Rogue Artifact Weapon: The Kingslayers – Legion 7.3.5

This section of the Assassination Rogue guide explains the best possible choices for the Netherlight Crucible, important traits and relic bonuses, and how to progress through your Assassination Rogue artifact weapon The Kingslayers. This guide is written by Gray_Hound, a Rogue in SPK. You can watch Gray_Hound on Twitch. Updated for the latest patch.

Netherlight Crucible

The Netherlight Crucible is a new system added in Patch 7.3. The Crucible allows you further empower your Assassination Rogue Artifact Weapon, by specializing and increasing the power from your relics. With it, each relic receives a small talent tree that you can select new traits from, depending how many traits your weapon have. Do not worry, however, because with the changes to Artifact Knowledge, unlocking the full power of the Crucible won't take long. Learn everything about this new system in our Netherlight Crucible Guide. With the opening of Antorus, il Trono Infuocato, it is now possible to obtain Fregio della Grande Armata, which increases the potency of your Tier 2 Crucible traits by 50%. It might be a really strong legendary if you are lucky with Netherlight Crucible rolls!

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Tier 3 Traits - FoK Build

NLC Trait Recommendations

Active Ability

Equipping The Kingslayers grants you the ability Rovina dei Re, which strikes your enemy, releasing the poison from inside the blades, leaving the target poisoned. Every time you apply a lethal poison in a target, it increases the damage done by Rovina dei Re.

Empowered Traits

New traits explanation

mostly mediocre trait, albeit it does get synergy with the T20 tier bonuses, and will be acceptable on multi-target.

defensive trait of questionable value which seems somewhat counterproductive - crimson vial is generally used after damage already gone out, while this mitigates incoming damage. However, rogues are generally the designated soak class, so this can be combined with other damage reductions to be a decent damage reduction (when timed to line up with last second of the buff)

only new trait we really care about. New applications of our Lethal Poisons reduce Kingsbane cooldown greatly increasing the number of times it can be used - generally expected to reduce cd down to ~30 seconds resulting in 50% more uses.

Recommended Assassination Rogue Artifact trait path

Other traits are significantly weaker, and thus can be chosen by personal preference.